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Key Added notes from lecture Term: Definition/Example Diversity Lecture Handout 9/12/17 I. FROM C LIMATIC D ETERMINISM TO B IOLOGICAL D ETERMINISM The “authority” of scientific discourse. zên kata phusin – “to live in accordance with nature” Airs, Waters, Places - Nomos = law & custom  behavior (e.g. monarchies cause slavish nature) - Phusis = nature & climate  behavior (e.g. mild weather causes slavish nature) - Nomos and Phusis although opposites to an extent, are constantly in dialect with one another o Climatic Determinism: the idea that the airs, waters, and topography of a place determine the characteristics (physical, intellectual) of the flora, fauna, and inhabitants.  Is the determinative power of climate absolute What of the interplay of nomos and phusis • “nor is it possible in such phusis for a man to be warlike and courageous – neither a homophulos (indigenous) nor an allophulos (immigrant). • Macrocephaloi (Big Heads) - Lamarck’s giraffes • The warlike Greeks in Asia o monarchy – freedom – the problem of Ionia. Mismeasure of Man - Biological determinism: (Fredrickson) “It is when differences that might otherwise be considered ethno-cultural are regarded as innate, indelible, and unchangeable that a racist attitude or ideology